Kuala Lumpur – The Malaysian Federal government has hinted at the release of 4,800 undocumented Indonesian migrant employees from the country’s immigration detention houses to then be repatriated to Indonesia given that June 6.
The Malaysian Immigration and Foreign Ministry authorities had actually discussed this repatriation-related strategy with their counterparts from the Indonesian Embassy on May 28, Malaysian Defence Minister Sabri Yaakob mentioned in Putrajaya on Saturday.
Prior to their repatriation, all Indonesians presently housed at a number of detention houses in the nearby country would be taken a look at using the Rapid Test Kit Antigen (RTK Antigen) method to check for the existence of coronavirus.
Authorities at the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur were invited to observe the RTK Antigen-related events, Yaakob remarked.
The first phase of repatriation will be performed on June 6 including 2,189 undocumented Indonesian migrant employees staying at a number of migration detention centers in the Malaysian Peninsula and Sarawak in addition to 672 others in Sabah.
The very first batch of 450 undocumented migrant employees would be flown back to Indonesia through Jakarta, Medan, and Surabaya on June 6, while 445 others would return through those 3 Indonesian cities on June 10, he mentioned.
The repatriation of 1,294 undocumented migrant employees to Medan would also be performed by sea on June 22, he specified, including that 2,623 Indonesians would become part of the 2nd stage of repatriation.
The Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur will provide the requisite files for repatriation to Indonesians, who had yet to possess legal travel documents.
On May 29, the Malaysian Federal government had highlighted the contract of the governments of Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Nepal to its proposition to repatriate their unlawful migrant employees and undocumented people that checked unfavorable for COVID-19
Like numerous other nations around the world, Malaysia has actually likewise been striving to flatten the curve of COVID-19 cases and to handle the socio-economic effects of the virus that at first struck the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.
The Malaysian federal government has actually imposed a motion control order (MCO) to slow down the spread of this COVID-19 pandemic.
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